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A bird song almost too quiet to hear

Model redefining conformity excels against real-world data

Decoding animal minds

SFI External Professor Nicholas de Monchaux named Dean of UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Simon Levin named Fellow of the Royal Society

Brian Enquist receives Robert H. MacArthur Award

Han van der Maas named director of Amsterdam’s Institute for Advanced Study

Marina Dubova receives Dissertation Prize

Smart parts for smart wholes

Aaron Clauset receives honors from AAAS and University of New Mexico

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne receives Erdős-Rényi Prize

Why noise may be the key to understanding cell group patterns

Reinventing democracy before it breaks

Do deep learning models recognize 3D shapes in the same way humans do?

Upending assumptions about learning, inspired by an AI phenomenon

Looking at AGI through the lens of natural intelligence

A simple baseline for AI forecasting in machine learning

Constantino Tsallis to co-chair the 2027 Nobel Symposium on Statistical Mechanics

How novelty arrives: Review of “The Origins of the New”

Working group asks, what’s the benefit of a brain?